GEORGETOWN -- In a setting perhaps worthy of its own Frank Capra production, longtime friends and D.C. business leaders Bash Kazi and Michael Saylor hosted a casually festive “Christmas Sing-Along” celebration on Thursday evening at Mr. Smith’s of Georgetown.

With over a hundred of the city’s local residents and self-described “orphans and vagabonds” (those transplants who will temporarily call the District home over the holidays) donning their finest elf and Santa apparel for the occasion, the “friendliest saloon in town” soon found itself overflowing with green and red holiday cheer.

Last night’s party marked the first of its kind and came about after Kazi and Saylor stumbled upon the M Street-based piano bar a few weeks back, after having dinner together at the nearby Four Seasons Hotel.

“We decided that it was the perfect place to throw a piano party,” said a Santa Claus costume-clad Kazi.